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Ministry of Commerce & Industry
QCI Conclave in Uttarakhand
Quality Council of India  along with PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry  is organizing its 11th Regional Quality Conclave  on 20th December 2019 at, Rudrapur, district Udham Singh Nagar, Uttarakhand. The Conclave will be inaugurated by Madan Kaushik,Minister of Urban Development Government of Uttarakhand.Faggan Singh Kulaste,Minister of State, Ministry of Steel, Government of India will also attend.
The theme of the RudrapurRQC is “Advance Manufacturing with Quality, Innovation & Technology Interventions.” The objective of the Conclave is to create awareness about significance of quality culture in businesses, deliberate on how organizations could continuously improve and innovate and share the technological advancement like Industry 4.0 and predictive maintenance.
The Conclave will have sessions on Adding Value in Manufacturing and Supply Chain with Digital Transformation, Mapping Organization’s Route to Quality, Up skilling for Industry 4.0
Leadership and Engagement Strategies for Sustaining Innovation and Quality Culture.
Experts in the fields of creating Quality culture, Advance manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and Leadership and Engagement Strategies will participate in the RudrapurConclave to lead the discussions and lay down the roadmap for the future steps to be taken for the 4.0 engineering revolution in India.
The Conclave expects to receive more than 150 participants from top organizations from Uttarakhand region.District Udham Singh Nagar and Rudrapur are major industrial and educational hubs of Uttarakhand. Many infrastructure industries, motor vehicle companies and FMCG industries have their units in Rudrapur. Through this Conclave the Quality Council of India hopes to reach out to industries in the hilly regions of the country.
President's Secretariat
PRESIDENT OF INDIA TO VISIT GOA FROM AUGUST 22 TO 24
The President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu will visit Goa from August 22 to 24, 2023.
On August 22, 2023, the President will attend a civic reception to be hosted by the Government of Goa in her honour at Raj Bhavan, Goa. On the occasion, she will also distribute ‘Sanad’ under the Forest Rights Act to select beneficiaries.
On August 23, 2023, the President will grace the 34th convocation of Goa University and interact with the members of Tribal Groups of Goa at Raj Bhavan, Goa. On the same day, she will also address the Goa Legislative Assembly at Porvorim.
Ministry of Defence
INDIAN ARMY SIGNS CONTRACT FOR PROCUREMENT OF ‘TACTICAL LAN RADIO’ THROUGH INNOVATIONS FOR DEFENCE EXCELLENCE 
Continuing with the commitment towards 'Make in India' initiative the Indian Army has signed the second procurement contract through Innovations for Defence Excellence  on 09 June 2023. The contract with M/s Astrome Tech Pvt Ltd, Bangalore for procurement of indigenously developed ‘Tactical LAN Radio' was signed in presence of Lt Gen MV Suchindra Kumar, the Vice Chief of Army Staff at New Delhi. With this initiative, the Indian Army has taken a lead by signing two contracts under iDEX till date.
Tactical LAN solution is being developed indigenously for creating secure tactical LAN in remote and difficult terrain. ‘Tactical LAN Radio' is a state of the art high bandwidth backhaul wireless radio equipment for provisioning of reliable and failsafe communication. The solution offers an enhanced range of communication and embedded frequency hopping mechanism to preclude chances of interception and long-range point-to-multipoint high-bandwidth communication. The system also incorporates the enhanced safety features and can operate continuously for 48 hours on a single set basis without any breakdown.
iDEX was launched by Hon'ble PM on 12 April 2018 during Defence Expo India 2018. The aim of iDEX is to create an eco-system to foster innovations and encourage technological development in Defence and Aerospace by engaging R&D institutes, academia, industries including MSMEs, start-ups, individual innovators and provide them grants/ funding and other support to carry out R&D which has good potential for future adoption by Indian Defence and Aerospace Organisation. Over the past four years, iDEX under ‘Defence Innovation Organisation’ has emerged as a front runner in establishing right kind of contact with the start-ups and innovators and has gained substantial traction in the defence start-up community.
At present a total of 42 projects of the Indian Army are part of Defence India Start-up Challenge , Open Challenges and iDEX PRIME scheme which involves handholding of 41 start-ups for development of latest state of the art solutions for challenges posed by the Indian Army. For each challenge a dedicated nodal officer and a category ‘A’ establishment as ‘Centre of Excellence’ from the Indian Army has been nominated for handholding and continuous support for progress of the projects. Balance ‘Acceptance of Necessity’ accorded iDEX projects of the Indian Army are also under finalisation and are likely to fructify into contracts shortly.
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Prime Minister's Office
PM pays tributes to Lal Bahadur Shastri Ji at Parliament
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi paid floral tributes to former Prime Minister Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri at Parliament House today on the occasion of his birth anniversary.
The Prime Minister Office tweeted:
“PM @narendramodi paid floral tributes to Lal Bahadur Shastri Ji at Parliament House today.”
Ministry of Labour & Employment
SOCIAL SECURITY CONCERNS OF INDIANS WORKING ABROAD
Social Security concerns of Indians working abroad are governed by various conventions of International Labour Organization  and is operationalized through signing of social security agreements. The Social Security agreements protect the rights of International workers in terms of detachment, totalization and portability benefits.
India has signed social security agreements with 19 countries and 1 province . Out of the total 20 agreements signed 19 have entered into force.
For fostering regular migration and to encourage the mobility of the workforce, India has been entering into Migration and Mobility Agreements with different countries. The agreement, inter-alia contains the provision regarding cooperation between two sides in fight against irregular migration and trafficking in human beings.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Labour & Employment, Shri Rameswar Teli in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Law and Justice
Cabinet approves MoU between India and United Kingdom on cooperation in the sphere of Law & Justice and establishing a Joint Consultative Committee
The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has approved signing of a Memorandum of Understanding  between India and United Kingdom regarding cooperation between both countries in the sphere of Law & Justice and to set up a Joint Consultative Committee.
The MoU takes care of concerns and requirements in the field of exchange of experience by legal professionals, government functionaries and their training and effective legal aid mechanism for resolution of disputes before various Courts, Tribunals, etc. and proposes establishment of Joint Consultative Committees.
Ministry of Defence
ARMY REBOOTING RATIONS WITH MILLETS
With a view to promote consumption of millets in light of UN declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets, the Indian Army has steered introduction of Millets Flour in the rations of soldiers. This landmark decision will ensure troops are supplied with native and traditional grains after over half a century, when these were discontinued in favour of Wheat Atta.
Traditional millet foods with proven health benefits and suited to our geographical and climatic conditions would be a vital step in mitigating life style diseases and enhancing satisfaction and morale of the troops. Millets would now form an integral part of the daily meal for all ranks.
Government sanction has been sought to procure millets flour not exceeding 25 percent of the authorised entitlement of Cereals , in rations for troops commencing from the year 2023-24 onwards. Procurement and issue will be based on option exercised and quantity demanded. Three popular varieties of millets flour i.e. Bajra, Jowar & Ragi will be issued to troops duly considering preference. Millets have the benefit of being a good source of proteins, micro-nutrients and phyto-chemicals thus boosting the nutritional profile of Soldier’s diet.
In addition, advisories have been issued for Millets to be extensively used in organised functions, Barakhanas, canteens and in home cooking. Centralised training of chefs is being undertaken to prepare wholesome, tasty and nutritious millet dishes. Special emphasis for introducing value added millet items and snacks to troops deployed along Northern borders have been given. Millet foods are being introduced through CSD canteens as well as dedicated corners are being set up in shopping complexes. ‘Know your Millet’ awareness campaigns are also being conducted in educational institutions.
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Ministry of Defence
OPENING CEREMONY EXERCISE INDRA-21
The Indo - Russia joint training Exercise INDRA 2021 commenced at Prudboy Ranges, Volgograd on 04 Aug 2021 with an impressive opening ceremony that saw the unfurling of the National Flags of both countries. Exercise INDRA 2021 will enhance interoperability between the Indian and Russian Armies .
The aim of the exercise is to facilitate joint training between Indian and Russian Armies to jointly plan and conduct counter terror operations under the United Nations mandate. The conduct of the exercise will also entail academic discussions between expert groups of both contingents.
The exercise will focus on unit level joint planning and conduct of anti terrorist operations and will include cordon & search operations, intelligence gathering and sharing, perception management, humanitarian laws and hostage rescue in simulated settings.
Exercise INDRA – 2021 will strengthen mutual confidence, interoperability and enable sharing of best practices between both the armed forces. It will be another landmark event in the history of Indo-Russian defence cooperation.
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Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
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Cylinders distributed under PMUY during Corona crisis
Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana commenced w.e.f. 01.05.2016 to provide deposit free LPG connections to adult woman of poor households. The target of the same was achieved on 7th September, 2019. Year-wise details of LPG connections released under the Scheme are as under:-
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2016-17
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2017-18
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2018-19
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2019-20
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200.3 lakh
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155.7 lakh
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362.9 lakh
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82.64 lakh
State/UT-wise details of refill issued and amount spent from April, 2020 to August, 2020 under Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana to the PMUY beneficiaries are at Annexure.
This information was given by the Union Minister of Petroleum & Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan in the Rajya Sabha today in a written reply.
Ministry of Defence
Rear Adm IB Uthaiah, VSM takes over as Admiral Superintendent, Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam
Rear Admiral IB Uthaiah, VSM took over as the Admiral Superintendent, Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam from RearAdmiral Sreekumar Nair, NM during a formal ceremony held on 31 May 21.
Rear Admiral IB Uthaiah, VSM was commissioned into the Indian Navy in Nov 1987. The Admiral holds a B Tech Degree in Marine Engineering, an M Tech Degree in Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation and an M Phil Degree in Strategic Studies.
In his 33 years of service, the Admiral has served the Indian Navy in various capacities, with appointments at the Warship Design Directorate, Training Academies, Naval Dockyard and at the Command and Naval Headquarters. His key Staff appointments cover areas of Warship Design, Building and Acquisition; Warship Operation, Maintenance and Repair; Officer Training and Project Management of a mega Marine and Civil Infrastructure Project. His recent Operational and Staff appointments include General Manager  at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam and Principal Director . On being elevated to the rank of Rear Admiral, the officer was appointed as Additional Director General  at Headquarters, Project Seabird. The Mega Project involves creation of a futuristic Naval Base at Karwar, with four self-contained townships, a Naval Air station and a 400 bed tertiary care Hospital.
An alumnus of the Naval War College, he was awarded the VishistSeva Medal  for distinguished service at Naval Dockyard and was instrumental in concluding major Warship construction contracts with Russian and Indian Shipyards as Principal Director.
On handing over the helm at Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam, Rear Admiral Sreekumar Nair, NM would take over as Director General Naval Project at Visakhapatnam, on promotion to Vice Admiral.
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Ministry of Labour & Employment
EPFO advises Beneficiaries to avail Online Services to contain spreading of COVID-19
In view of Government of India guidelines to contain spreading of COVID-19, Employees’ Provident Fund Organization  advises it members, pensioners and employers to avail various online services offered by EPFO, from the comfort of their homes, and to avoid visiting EPFO offices.
Most of the services of EPFO are available online. An employee can generate his/her own Universal Account Number , activate his/her UAN and seed it with Aadhaar, PAN, Bank Account and mobile number . Employee can also make nominations, view balance in the passbook, update his/her date of exit, transfer his/her account from unexempted to exempted establishment and vice-versa. Employees have been further empowered to raise claims online for Provident Fund advances or final withdrawal; pension or Insurance benefits  and receive payment of PF/Pension/Insurance benefits directly in his/her bank account.
Similarly, a pensioner can download his/her Pension Payment Order  or preserve it in Digilocker; know his PPO number with the help of his/her bank account number or UAN and view passbook. Pensioners can also update Jeevan Praman  online any time of the year.
Employers can register their establishments under EPF & MP Act, 1952 and obtain establishment ID; make payment of EPF and allied dues through RTGS/NEFT and submit Electronic Challan cum Return . Employers have also been facilitated to avail e-inspections of their establishments.
In case employees, employers and pensioners have any grievance they can get them resolved online through EPFigms portal. The details of these services and facilities are available at www.epfindia.gov.in.
These facilities are available also on UMANG App. of Government of India, so one can access these online services from his/her mobile too on UMANG App.
Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying
Government of India approves plan to establish two lakh new multipurpose Primary Agricultural Credit Societies  / dairy / fishery primary cooperative societies for covering all the remaining Panchayats/ villages in the country
Department of Fisheries under “Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana ” financially supports fisheries cooperatives, fisheries federations and Fish Farmer Producer Organizations 
The Government of India has approved a plan to establish two lakh new multipurpose Primary Agricultural Credit Societies  / dairy / fishery primary cooperative societies for covering all the remaining Panchayats/ villages in the country, with the support of State Governments, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development , National Dairy Development Board  and National Fisheries Development Board  through convergence of various existing schemes of Government of India and by leveraging the ‘whole-of-Government’ approach in the next five years. As per reports given by States/UTs, there are 18,981 fishery cooperatives operating throughout the country.
The cooperative sector has huge potential in developing the fishery business in India and abroad as it helps in focusing on the community management, generating employment, increase bargain power and income of the fish farmers, thus, improving socio-economic status of fish farmers.
The Government of India has approved setting up of three national level Multi-State Cooperative Societies  one each for Organic, Seeds and Exports registered under MSCS Act, 2002 i.e. National Co-operative Export Society, National Co-operative Society for Organic Products and National Level Multi-State Seed Co-operative Society. These cooperative societies are expected to support the fisheries in the areas of supply of seed and quality fish marketing with focus on integrated project for development of Inland fisheries, fisher women cooperatives, branding & trade promotion and capacity building. In addition, Integration of Cooperatives data with Gati Shakti Portal to utilise the infrastructure being developed by the Centre and State.
The Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying under “Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana ” is financially supporting fisheries cooperatives, fisheries federations and Fish Farmer Producer Organizations  as one of the intended beneficiaries under the scheme.
This information was given by Shri Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying in a written reply in Lok Sabha today.
Ministry of Defence
Indian Coast Guard rescues 36 crew including 8 scientists onboard the National Institute of Oceanography’s research vessel off Karwar Coast
Indian Coast Guard successfully rescued 36 crew including eight scientists on board a research ship - RV Sindhu Sadhana of the National Institute of Oceanography  in the Arabian Sea off Karwar Coast in Karnataka on July 27, 2023. The research vessel had suffered engine failure and was approximately 20 nautical miles away from the land when the distress signal was received.
The situation was critical as the state-of-the-art research vessel of NIO was carrying valuable scientific equipment and research data. Moreover, the proximity of the ship to the ecologically sensitive Karwar coastline posed an imminent threat of grounding, which could have resulted in a major oil spill and devastating pollution to the pristine marine environment.
Upon receiving the distress call, the Indian Coast Guard immediately swung into action and activated a high-priority rescue operation, dispatching their highly advanced Ship with a skilled team to the area. Recognizing the potential magnitude of the disaster, the Indian Coast Guard got activated to safeguard the Ship so as to protect the fragile ecosystem and save the vessel from running aground.
Despite challenging weather conditions and the vessel's considerable distance from the coastline and size of the ship, the Indian Coast Guard team took the vessel under tow to safely bring it to Goa, thereby executing a seamless rescue operation. The crew members onboard the NIO ship are safe and sound.
Ministry of Culture
Minister of State for Culture Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi met Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam Mr. H.E. Nguyen Van Hung in New Delhi
Minister of State for Culture Smt Meenakashi Lekhi met Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Vietnam Mr. H.E. Nguyen Van Hung accompanied by Mrs. Nguyen Phuong HoaDirector General, International Cooperation Department, MoCSTon 17th December, 2021 in New Delhi during his visit to India from 15th-19thDecember, 2021 as member of Vietnamese delegation.
MoS Culture Smt. Meenakashi Lekhi with her counterpart Mr.H.E. Nguyen Van Hung
The Ministers acknowledged the unique historical and friendly relationship of India and Vietnam, and reiterated their commitment to deepen and strengthen this relationship. Discussion was held on various cultural cooperation issues. On this occasion a book titled “Cham Sculptures from Vietnam and their Interface with the Indian Art ” co-authored by Indian and Vietnamese experts was presented by Minister of State for Culture Smt. MeenakashiLekhi to her Vietnamese counterpart as a testimony to cultural bonding between the two nations. The book has been published under Memorandum of Understanding signed between the National Museum Institute of India  and the Da Nang Museum of Vietnam in 2013.
Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers
India to import 4,50,000 vials of Remdesivir
First Consignment of 75000 vials to reach today
The Government of India has started importing the vital drug Remdesivir from other countries to ease out the shortage of Remdesivir in the country. The first Consignment of 75000 vials will reach India today.
HLL Lifecare Ltd, a Government of India owned company has ordered 4,50,000 vials of Remdesivir from M/s Gilead Sciences Inc USA. and Egyptian Pharma Company, M/s Eva Pharma. It is expected that Gilead Sciences Inc. USA will dispatch 75,000 to 1,00,000 vials in the next one or two days. Further one hundred thousand quantities will also be supplied before or by May 15. EVA pharma will supply approximately 10,000 vials initially followed by 50,000 vials every 15 days or till July.
Government has ramped up the production capacity of Remdesivir in the country. As on 27.04.21, the production capacity of the seven licensed domestic manufacturers increased from 38 lakh vials per month to 1.03 crore vials per month. Total 13.73 lakh vials have been supplied across the country by the Drug companies in the last seven days . The daily supply has gone up from 67,900 vials on 11th April to 2.09 lakh vials on 28th April, 2021. An advisory was issued by MHA to states and UTs to facilitate smooth movement of Remdesivir supplies.
Government also prohibited the export of Remdesivir to enhance its availability in India. To ensure affordability of the injection among the masses, NPPA on April 17, 2021 released the revised maximum retail price thus bringing down the cost of all the major brands to below Rs 3500 per vial.
In order to facilitate higher production and availability of Remdesivir, the Department of Revenue vide Notification 27/2021-Customs dated 20th April exempted the whole of the duty of Customs on Remdesivir injection, its API and Beta cyclodextrin used in manufacture of Remdesivir, till 31st October 2021.
National Treatment Protocol was updated through the Clinical guidance for Management of Adult COVID 19 patients by AIIMS/ ICMR- COVID-19 National Task Force/ Joint Monitoring group of MoHFW on 22.04.2021. The updated protocol will encourage Judicious use of Drugs and is expected to contribute to rationalising demand.
Ministry of Commerce & Industry
Office of Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks  holds daily open conferences to address grievances of IP filers
To further strengthen the Intellectual Property  Ecosystem in the country, the Office of Controller General of Patents Designs and Trademarks has launched a daily “Open Conference” from 17th October 2022.
The Open Conference can be joined at https://ipindia.gov.in/newsdetail.htm?835/
It is launched with an aim to facilitate the stakeholders by reducing the requirement of visiting the IP Offices. Now, the grievances and queries of the stakeholders are being addressed virtually by the officials of IPO for quicker resolution thereby enabling faster processing of IP applications.
Since 17th October 2022 the Open Conference is being held on all working days during 10.30 am to 11.30 am. Over 104 stakeholders from all over the country joined the inaugural session of the conference. Many stakeholders join every day to bring to the notice of IP officials emerging issues in Patents, Designs, Trademarks and Copyrights domains along with suggestions they offer to redress such issues. The issues pertaining to inordinate delay by the office in taking appropriate action, gets resolved in a time bound manner from the date of raising such issue.
Based on the stakeholder inputs received during the open conference, the Indian IP Office has implemented the system of “dynamic cause list" for Trade Marks show cause hearings with effect from 1st December 2022 wherein the link for online hearing room will be made accessible on the website itself.